Word: platformization
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...orchestra’s overall performance was fantastic. The strings and woodwinds complemented each other perfectly as the timpani pounded in the background, building suspense.As music director of BachSoc for the second year in a row, a rare feat, Demirjian showcased his conducting talents masterfully. His presence on the platform was awe-inspiring. As his arms rose and fell in sweeping, majestic motions, it was as if the symphony itself was inside him, bursting to reach everyone in the music hall that night.In contrast to Goto’s impassioned performance and Demirjian’s direction, the orchestra?...
...capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary results released mid-day Monday, the PO received 45% of the vote, compared to just over 30% for the PIS. PO leader Donald Tusk, the likely Prime Minister in a coalition government, said last night...
...strong finish came as a surprise, but hardly the first in Poland's often mercurial political scene. Less than three weeks ago, the PIS was ahead in the polls. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski performed badly against Tusk in a key televised debate, appearing overly combative, according to observers. The Civic Platform also succeeded in galvanizing the anti-Kaczynski vote, persuading voters - mainly among Poland's younger middle classes - to voice their unhappiness with the government at the polling booths. In an unusual move, Tusk and other party leaders even traveled outside of Poland to campaign, visiting both London and Dublin...
...vote in the state's off-year open primary, the first since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and became the first non-white politician to hold the state's highest office since Reconstruction. Jindal, one of the few young rising stars in the G.O.P. ran on a strong reform platform. "Don't let anyone talk badly about Louisana," he said during his Saturday night victory speech at a Baton Rouge Holiday Inn. "Those days [of corruption and incompetence] are officially over. There has never been a clearer mandate for our state...
...Lampoon were a political party, its platform would be “cut and run.” Police arrested a fleeing Lampoon editor on Sunday morning after he allegedly attempted to cut down newly planted trees on the Mt. Auburn Street island outside the Lampoon Castle. A Harvard University police officer saw James A. Powers Jr. ’08—an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—in the process of cutting down trees at about...